left @ - @ wing political groups . lead belly was invited to perform at camp unity , the communist party usa ' s summer retreat , and the fbi subsequently opened a file on him in the 1940s . this led to the accusations that the communists were taking advantage of him and using him as a platform . the party claims , to the contrary , that they were some of the few people who respected him and gave him a chance to perform . jeff todd tito ##n and several other writers have suggested that lead belly had significant help with its authorship and claim it is not a genuine protest song . this theory stems from the idea that lead belly did not have
left @ - @ wing political groups. lead belly was invited to perform at camp unity, the communist party usa's summer retreat, and the fbi subsequently opened a file on him in the 1940s. this led to the accusations that the communists were taking advantage of him and using him as a platform. the party claims, to the contrary, that they were some of the few people who respected him and gave him a chance to perform. jeff todd titon and several other writers have suggested that lead belly had significant help with its authorship and claim it is not a genuine protest song. this theory stems from the idea that lead belly did not have